Hate the iPhone keyboard? Watch these 13 tips!

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Typing is probably one of the most fundamental things that we all do on our iPhones, yet for a lot of people, it’s really difficult to type quickly and accurately. I reckon I’ve got it pretty well figured out for me, so in this video I’m going to share all of the tips I know for how to type quickly and accurately on your iPhone, no matter your situation.
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Chapters;
0:00 - Intro
0:20 - Space Bar as a Trackpad
0:53 - Practice typing with both thumbs
1:33 - Use a third party keyboard
2:48 - Accents and Special Characters
3:48 - Text replacements
5:55 - Haptic Keyboard
7:04 - Shake to undo
7:28 - Period and Caps Lock
7:49 - Make use of different keyboards
8:37 - Swipe to type
9:24 - Text selection explained
10:39 - Horizontal mode
11:04 - Dictation

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@ProperHonestTech Год назад

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@TheWorldTeacher Год назад

😇 May God Bless You Always! 😇

@Oleg__ Год назад

How could you not mention the quick input of characters like the comma, question mark and exclamation point and other symbols on the second keyboard layer. Swipe from the "123" key to the desired character, and the keyboard itself returns to the first letter layer.

@DannyBridie 8 месяцев назад

man.. probably an unpopular opinion but, the Google Gboard keyboard is PHEMONENAL!! i've been using it since the iPhone 7 Plus. QUICKLY noticed i made FAR less mistakes when typing fast, and if i ever did, I found the autocorrect to be much more accurate/helpful. AND, it is MUCH more customizable, which is important to me. you can choose literally any image you want for the keyboard background, & edit it basically in any way you want! definitely at least try it!!

@vijeysrini Год назад

The features I sorely miss when compared to Android are - long press a letter to type the corresponding symbols/numbers and provision to change the number layout from one horizontal line to keypad layout. I have tried giving this feedback through apple's own website- but no use. Great reviewers like you will have the voice to take this feedback to apple, thanks for the nice video, this is the first video of yours about iOS where I know all the features you have mentioned about typing :-)

@ClarkeDesign Год назад

What about quick way to get to numbers. Press and hold on the numbers icons, then slide to the number you want, rather than going into numbers mode and back out again. Same with the shift key for capital letters. Works like the example you showed for accents etc...

@fahadsaeedx Год назад

Damn. Thank you

@gabrielglenn1714 2 месяца назад

Ridiculous no option to just have a keyboard with #’s always up top

@BroRobWm Год назад

Always such useful stuff, and presented in such a congenial manner. Thank you! ❤️

@marthakrause8441 Год назад

Incredible amount of useful information. I’ll have to revisit to take it all in. Grateful for your videos.

@sherbear2016 Год назад

Thank you for these excellent tips! Now I just need to practice them. 😊

@lynnbartlett4185 Год назад

Another useful video. Thank you.

@murrieteacher Год назад

I keep forgetting about the ability to hold down the spacebar to move the cursor. I am very impressed with the dictation abilities of the iPhone. And I can now do a shortcut and get the address with line breaks. Thank you!

@steveloader7524 Год назад

OMG! Just the 1st tip alone is mind-blowing ❤

@yams900 Год назад

Learned many new things ! Thx for sharing :)

@DorianGreer Год назад

Excellent. I have to watch this again to incorporate everything I've just learned. BTW I'm still somewhat new to the iPhone (switched from Android) and this information is making life easier. Thanks.

@ProperHonestTech Год назад

Glad it was helpful!

@abstutheit 11 месяцев назад

Finding out how to use the space bar as a cursor alone was worth the price of admisssion to me. Thank you!

@siloPIRATE 2 месяца назад

It was a lot better with 3D Touch. Pushing it would move the cursor, pushing harder entered text selection and it was very accurate. I can’t remember if there was a third level of pressure. Now you have to use two fingers to do the same thing and it doesn’t work very well

@saiyidramdhani7970 Год назад

Hi… youre smooth with your videos and very helpful!!! Thanks for you support i always appreciate you😊

@sammayet9002 Год назад

Excellent, useful and helpful, ❤❤❤❤thank you

@donaldnorth3714 Год назад

Thank you Proper! I always learn so much! That’s why I’m a member of your channel so I can get a copy of your program in the pdf form. You’re making my “technology life” so much easier.

@ProperHonestTech Год назад

That's amazing to hear - I'm glad you're getting value from the videos and the PDFs!

@mikemasek6249 Год назад

You have the best how-to videos for iphone on YT. Thanks so much for doing these.

@ProperHonestTech Год назад

Thank you for watching!

@TheCallyjean Год назад

If you need the keyboard to appear larger, you can use the 'zoom' option - it will enlarge the keyboard :)

@edwardsazonov1034 Год назад

My personal best tip to type much faster - simply turn off autocorrect. You may feel uncomfortable at first, but later you'll see the benefit. If you make a mistake, your iPhone won't correct the word to something completely different - just one delete press and all good. Also incredibly useful for non-native English speakers(like me), because your phone won't correct words you deliberately want to type in English pronunciation using non-Roman alphabet. I turned it off more than 5 years ago and I don't miss autocorrect at all.

@jfk1558 2 месяца назад

This video is so helpful

@chrisrobbins2632 10 месяцев назад

Wow. This was so helpful to a new iPhone user. Such a great clear, concise presentation that I'm pretty sure kept me from taking my new SE 3rd gen phone and dashing it against a brick wall and then stomping on it until it was completely and utterly destroyed and out of my life forever.

@shirleychang2071 Год назад

I enjoyed watching your videos & wish I had your knowledge

@KyleBigler Год назад

Three finger tap on the keyboard to undo or redo. It takes a bit of practice to get it right, but super helpful for when I mistakenly delete a chunk of text.

@Inkling777 Год назад

Thanks for the great advice! I'll add one more. For longer typing sessions, consider getting a full-sized keyboard. Choose well, and you'll get a host of benefits. I'm delighted by my Matias Slim One. It's compact, lightweight and includes both a USB and Bluetooth UI, which lets you use it with two devices. Type via USB and you'll enter into one device. Hit the iPhone button, and it uses Bluetooth for the other. Matias intended the USB for a Mac and the BT for an iPhone, but you don't have to use it that way. The keyboard sips very little power, so you can use the USB cable with an iPhone or iPad via Apple's Lightning to USB camera adapter. (No error message about using too much power.) Then you can use the BT to talk with whatever you like, including an iPad. The keyboard also includes a string of keys across the top to adjust lighting, sound, etc. Unfortunately, the Matias Slim One is no longer available retail. You may be able to find an equivalent or get it used online.

@alisultanabdullah6924 Год назад

Hi! It's also possible to go between letters by tapping and holding the place where you want to go on the screen, it magnifies the word to be more accurate

@gustavopellegrini1995 Год назад

thanks

@joelgarciagomez1690 3 месяца назад

Thank you very much. Really helped. It was hard for me at first coming from Samsung for soo many years. I think I like the Iphone keyboard way better. Typing faster than I used to on Android and making less mistakes. The only think that I like from android keyboard is the customization all about it. Thank u. Keep up the good work.

@anirudhsingh8479 6 месяцев назад

thank you very much ❤

@JennyZinaTavares 9 месяцев назад

Very useful.

@praneeth-_- Год назад

When using dictation, how should we ask for “send” and similar options All such Hints on dictation option will really help a lot.

@LarryFasnacht Год назад

I'm surprised that you didn't cover Accessibility Voice Control. Lots of good stuff in there for dictation.

@LihsaInHouston Год назад

I used to use Swype before I switched to iPhone. One of the features it had was to swipe my finger above the keyboard to capitalize a letter. I really miss this when I switched to iPhone. Is there a similar feature in iPhone?

@chrishuston4445 Год назад

Thanks!

@ProperHonestTech Год назад

Thank you very much!

@Winburggirl 6 месяцев назад

🎉Good video!

@RichardShelton Год назад

Once again, another wonderful video. Thank you so much! I use swipe texting all the time, I just can't do the 2-thumb thing. The main rule for me after creating a text is to proof-read it before sending, as my phone almost always 'mis-interprets' what I meant to say at least once or twice.

@fancypants2007 2 месяца назад

The horizontal keyboard used to have buttons to nudge the cursor position. Those were extremely useful. There was no good reason to remove those, and now there is useless extra margin space.

@hnek Год назад

this spacebar thing is F**KING incredible! and I'm still learning the slidey method although sometimes I forget how to spell a word and my thumb is over the letters. Also I'm using dictation more

@ProperHonestTech Год назад

LOVE to read comments like this! 👍🏻

@hnek Год назад

@@ProperHonestTech I'm totally skint rn but I have been sharing your videos at least! You got me curious about shortcuts too but they are...a LOT.

@LarryFasnacht Год назад

Also if I'm doing a lot of typing, I connect with a Bluetooth keyboard. Though the control keys seem whacky.

@marklaurendet1861 10 месяцев назад

Just found your channel when searching for these types of tips. The thing that I dont understand is that when filling out online forms sometimes I get a keyboard that has all the characters to add email addresses etc on the one screen, but the default apple keyboard requires you to continually swap between letters and numbers. Am I missing something simple here to get around this problem ?

@frankquijada9165 11 месяцев назад

When typing an abbreviation and ending it with a period, how do you force the next letter to be lower case instead of it being automatically capitalized?

@andyabraham7269 Год назад

Hi, What is 'Freeform' on my Mac, and how do I use it? Loving the content.

@ProperHonestTech Год назад

Watch my video all about it here! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-znCaAoEYiR8.html

@RojoYoda Год назад

Thanks for the spacebar as a trackpad hack

@dplj4428 Год назад

1:01 that holding down! i kept finding unexpected.

@ikbozhko Месяц назад

Thank you for the great tips! It makes life with an iPhone easier. However, still hate the iPhone keyboard - auto prediction really work in a strange way. If you entered a word with a typo, no problem, you can find the correct prediction in the center and it will be autocorrected while you’re typing. But if you entered everything correctly, the correct word is on the right while there’s some bullshit in the center (usually a longer word starting with the word you need).

@ashour_abdal Месяц назад

I love commenting on my iPhone a lot!!!!

@isisalanis734 Год назад

I recently switched from Android to iOS and this keyboard is so annoying to me, a polyglot. The Google keyboard is able to recognize the language you're using and to adapt the suggestions. Meanwhile, on the iPhone I need to stop typing to change the keyboard first.

@petervanpuyvelde8959 13 дней назад

When typing yes. But not when dictating, here Apple blocks it.

@hollyjobitner3285 Год назад

I would like to be able to control the sensitivity of the keyboard. I have a benign essential tremor. A lot of times while typing I will glance away and have a bunch of a letter I didn’t want. I am able to control the sensitivity on another computer mouse,but no one has known how to help me. I’m sure as I age it will probably be worse and technology will really have passed me by. 💙

@MrCmonReally Год назад

Is there an easy way to add a date stamp, a timestamp, or even a date/time stamp as a shortcut? I find this handy when I am keeping monthly logs in the notes app but I always seem to type them in manually. Thanks!

@kellzb3582 Год назад

Create a text replacement for the date you’re using maybe?

@MrCmonReally Год назад

@@kellzb3582 I’ll see if that works. In the old Palm Pilot days, I would write DTS and it would automatically inset a Date and Time stamp where the cursor was. Very handy if you take notes on calls you make throughout the month

@kellzb3582 Год назад

Or you might be able to create a shortcut to do that but that’s beyond my knowledge.

@chweehar Год назад

I have an i13 with 16.3.1 ios but there is no microphone on the right bottom when using note, any idea why is that so?? thanks

@MoreChannelNoise 10 месяцев назад

I ate tipong !!

@rickringer Год назад

I like Gboard. Their version for Samsung is great. The one for Apple is different and it sucks

@Echopeaks 4 месяца назад

After new ios update always when i try to write special letters i hold letter it shows special letters but it immediately disappear and it starts moving cursor. How do i fix it?

@vinceunlimited Год назад

The problem with swipe text is the three suggestions made as you start to type a long word. If you spot the word in the suggestions and swipe up to get it it often changes just as you get there. I presume because the swipe up to get at it crosses other characters so the suggestion updates. Either that or it is just messing with me! Then it seems a faff to correct it. Any tips would be useful. The other issue is that it is not supported on my iPad so doesn't work at all. Unless there is a setting I'm missing. Finally why does the auto correction always default to May when I need May. There it did it again. I may have not meant the month. Can autocorrect lists be modified on iOS or iPadOS?

@grimmWednesday 8 месяцев назад

To use swipe typing on the iPad, you have to first switch to the mini keyboard (which floats rather than being fixed across the bottom). Press and hold the button on the far right of bottom row (has a keyboard symbol on it). Select “Floating” from the menu that appears. You can swipe type on that keyboard (if it’s turned on in Settings > General > Keyboard > Slide on Floating Keyboard to Type). To get the normal keyboard back, drag the floating keyboard to the bottom of the screen and hold for a beat; it should expand and lock in place.

@vinceunlimited 8 месяцев назад

@@grimmWednesday Thanks for that tip. It worked as suggested.

@richsuiters3662 Год назад

I have paired a bluetooth keyboard to my iPhone 14 plus and when i use my MagSafe charging stand, it becomes a mini laptop type experience… especially with the phone in landscape orientation.

@vectorbee7617 Год назад

How do I get rid of the blank space below the keyboard?

@adegbenroagoro5180 Год назад

I’ve been using the swipe feature on my phones for 12 years.

@kevinroper-mc8hb Месяц назад

text replacement is a great feature. there used to be a pc version of this which was great but no longer there. Such a useful feature. I still hate the, no punctuation on the screen with the letters!! and Swiftkey is amazing in Android. ( my proffered keyboard) please catch up IOS

@kevinroper-mc8hb Месяц назад

preferred :) IOS keyboard haha

@tranceformeeer 9 месяцев назад

To be honest one of the most annoying in my iPhone is typing. The built-in keyboard could be very good, but: no comma in the main keyboard, for special characters there are always one long row instead of two smaller rows. Although the keyboard apps don't provide me all of the special characters I frequently use. So I have two options: use the dumb basic keyboard or type without those extra characters and comma on the main screen... Oh, and seriously: no number row in the main screen! Why???? In those days when the phones are soo big, there are no place for an extra row in order to type faster?

@storytimewithamy Год назад

Apple 🍏 really needs to step up their keyboard game. It’s aeons behind Android

@ashour_abdal Месяц назад

I love my iPhone a lot !!!

@petervanpuyvelde8959 13 дней назад

good for you

@superduperori Год назад

3:50 useful

@sclifton8709 Год назад

Anyone know why when i try to type the word “and “ The keyboard constantly tries to correct it to “AB’s”

@DSarDarkstar Год назад

This could've been a 3 minute video by just recommending Swype and speech to text. Once iPhone got the ability to use Gboard and swipe... It finally caught up to Android after.... Years.

@vusheth Год назад

In dictation how can I get “.” Or “,”?

@i.o.3563 Год назад

I struggle with one thing the most - rejecting predictive text or auto-correction, I'm not sure what that's called. When I type in other languages than English, there is no suggested words along the way at the top of my keyboard. I don't know how to reject correction. Would appreciate if someone told me how to do this.

@ant5355 Год назад

Hello, I believe I know what you are trying to do but I’m not positive. Hopefully this helps. My suggestion would be to go to: Settings> General> Keyboard. Once you are there click “Keyboards” at the top then “Add New Keyboard.”A list of so many different languages will appear so simply select which language you want. (You can also add as many different keyboards for different languages as you want. Once you’ve added the different language keyboards you want and you are ready to type simply hold the circular globe on the bottom left of the keyboard and select the language you want. As you begin to type in a different language you should begin to see predictive/suggested words in that language appear above the keyboard for you to select. *Adding a new language keyboard will also resolve your problem if everything getting auto corrected to English or showing you that the word is spelled wrong. I hope this helps

@lite6384 Месяц назад

Why is it when I click it doesn’t move the cursor there permanently to let me insert characters but instead moves it all over the place and back to the end of the sentence then the highlight word

@nathan6899 7 месяцев назад

The ° symbol my god how long have you existed???

@neillaw 8 месяцев назад

Coming from Android the keyboard is a nightmare... Even the 3rd party keyboards. Gboard and swiftkey are simply missing incredibly useful functions, such as an immediate comma to the left of the spacebar, or long press symbols immediately on the current keyboard... Apple should be the leaders of functionality with the cost, not the followers!

@dianebrown5914 5 месяцев назад

I just thought that I would watch this vidio to see how the sighted part of the world lives. It was really interesting. Still, if you really want to type really quickly on an iPhone, Then learn braille. You use 6 finggers. You can do it in the dark. You don't even need to watch the screen. It’s called braille screen input.

@Inkling777 Год назад

These iPhone tricks illustrate an important principle sometimes called "eating you own cat food." Quite a few products are designed by people who don't use them, so they come with a host of irritations. Not so iPhones and iPads. Those who design and create their features use them constantly. The hassles that you and I suffer are hassles that they suffer, so they find solutions.

@marriedcouple3118 7 месяцев назад

Droid keyboard has a period and comma without having to switch to the numbers punctuation keyboard. Having to change keyboard for a comma or period every time really stinks. (Unless I'm just missing something.) So far, I am really not liking my change from droids to this Iphone 15.

@phyllisgarvin6611 3 месяца назад

Why does my space bar say mellanslag instead of space

@wanttoplae Год назад

Landscape mode……!

@ChrisCarries_EDC Год назад

Just tried swipe typing and it does not work. I'm on a 12 pro with the latest software update.

@ProperHonestTech Год назад

You might have to enable it (wasn't aware until now that this was a setting, otherwise I'd have included it in the video). Go to Settings, General, Keyboards, ensure that Slide to Type is enabled.

@ChrisCarries_EDC Год назад

@@ProperHonestTech cool thanks

@chelleb.9759 2 месяца назад

First time using iphone from an android. I still love the keyboard of androids but I hope apple will improve this eventually.

@SebastianBohn Год назад

Still very annoying that swiping and word prediction is limited to a few languages only. Wish Apple would catch up with Swift or Gboard here.

@jeffbassell Месяц назад

It would be a lot easier if apple would just allow an option to have a numbers row. Plain and simple. This has been rub with iOS for years.

@Kathikas1 Год назад

Like many others I do not own or have access to a PC or Mac. This means your Community Posts are not available to those of us who use 😊iPhones and iPads for all our IT activities …

@ProperHonestTech Год назад

Hi Tony - I literally just double-checked (as I was shocked by your statement) on my iPhone and iPad, and I can confirm that they are all available under the Membership tab of my channel. You might find downloading the RU-vid app for your iPhone/iPad the easiest way to access, but you 100% can access everything on the devices you've mentioned.

@Kathikas1 Год назад

@@ProperHonestTech Interesting - I do subscribe to your .pdf option but still get the unavailable message when I try to open a CP. Perhaps I need to have another look at the actual implementation you mention - thanks

@Kathikas1 Год назад

@@ProperHonestTech The Membership tab on my iPad (iPadOS 16.1) does show me being a member (eight days) but if I go to the Community tab next to it I just get that message saying the device does not support Community Posts. This is the same with a couple of other YT channels that I follow and subscribe to. Initially I assumed these Community Posts were limited to Patreons but further research reveals that is not the case - could it be an iPadOS issue as my iPhone SE does have listings under that Community tab?

@ProperHonestTech Год назад

Sorry, you're referring to community posts specifically (my mistake). Yes, this is a long-term compatibility issue on the iPad/iPhone apps for YT. However, I rarely post on the community tab, and all PDFs are available in the Membership tab (which you can access). So, whilst annoying, you're not missing out on much from me.

@Kathikas1 Год назад

@@ProperHonestTech Think I have cracked it! Community Posts in You Tube are NOT available for viewing in iPadOS. However if you go to RU-vid via your browser and select the Show Mobile Website (available through the Aa sub menu) the Community Tab will display the full channel content INCLUDING Community Posts) - another 45 wasted minutes … thank you Apple!

@cmvivek6753 10 месяцев назад

Stock keyboard is so pathetic it doesn’t have basic things like 1)Number rows 2)Clipboard(which is a must in this busy world) 3)Basic customisation I guess

@PoeJeter Год назад

also he forgot to mention the "100% offline mode" costs $24.99

@arashy Год назад

I’ve heard turning keyboard haptics on drains battery…

@ProperHonestTech Год назад

I mention that in the video.

@arashy Год назад

@@ProperHonestTech Yes, you did. I had already made the comment during the video and couldn’t delete it. Sorry. I love your videos. They are informative and delivered at a good pace. 😃

@ProperHonestTech Год назад

@@arashy no worries, glad you’re enjoying the content 👍🏻

@quentinpage5523 Год назад

All I do is turn the phone sideways then it full screen

@wattspeakers 4 месяца назад

I cannot believe how bad the iPhone is for typing or dictation. iPhone 15 and it’s basically not even usable. My Pixel 7 typing and dictation is so easy, decades ahead of Apple.

@The_Monkey_King Год назад

LOL…it’s 2023 and we are talking about swipe to type…

@johnny_sins_himself 8 месяцев назад

Getting rid of 3D Touch was just insulting. Why?? Tapping and holding takes way longer than simply force tapping to move the cursor. The delay sounds insignificant, but really bothers me.

@ZotmundSzele 5 месяцев назад

I am pretty obsessed with keyboards on phones in general and I am team Gboard (and team Android) right now. I think it is fundamentally different, yet similar how you type on both systems and currently this is what is holding me back from using an iPhone. I need to mention that I am Hungarian and we have special characters like Á É Ö Ü etc. These are placed on the right side, right of L P and so. So when I am typing an Á I am not looking for this on the left long pressing A but on the right side (where ENTER is). Autocorrection of course helps a lot but when you don't even start the word with the proper letter, autocorrect will not predict what you about to type. So Gboard without this special layout is kinda useless on an iPhone. I hope it's clear what I was trying to explain. I know it's a nuance but typing is a common and everyday thing.

@petervanpuyvelde8959 13 дней назад

that is why we need automatic multi languages recognition combined with dictating.

@marco1941 8 месяцев назад

If the phone is smart, it should adapt to my behavior instead of making me adapt my behavior to the phone. If I have to watch a video before being able to "type correctly", which is one of the most basic uses of those phones, something is really off.

@nixl3518 Год назад

Why type when u can speak? Typing is only to correct what Siri can’t figure out herself!

@DjangoGroen Год назад

Doesn’t anybody typ with 2 thumbs ? 😂

@Ssm19494 7 месяцев назад

You shouldn’t need a guide to have to use a keyboard, why don’t they just make it better?

@thereisnousernameleft 9 месяцев назад

The thing is. Typing with one language is okay. If you have 2 or 3, it gets worse and even worse. It’s barely usable. And one of the main reasons I went away from apple. For the last year I got an iPhone again. But I am as frustrated as before. As long as it is one language. The keyboard works 90% for me. But I speak 3 languages and write to people in 3. you can see a significant decrease in accuracy with 2 languages to a point where I already would recommend android. And with 3 it’s just a mess. And I watched nearly every video out there about the keyboard. I probably know the settings from my memory. But nope. There is no arguying. Apple has the worse software keyboard out there… they should be ashamed. And people who argue different most times never tried any other software keyboard.